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| Fabricated cartoons worsened Danish controversy |
| 2006-02-03 |
| What's interesting is that Claude Monniquet's Esisc (a non-idiotarian belgian terror study group) sez that the whole thing is actually managed by the muslim brotherhood. This could explain the delay between the publishing of the cartoons, without much protest at the time except a small demonstration by local muslims, and the current worldwide pious hysteria, especially if that time was needed to fabricate "proofs" to flare up the rubs. Goal would be to both blackmail the West into "submission", and further the rift between the muslims and non-muslims (one of the big achievement of the MB in Europe is having achieved the creation of an "european muslim" identity, though re-islamization of the migrants and insisting on their non-assimilation). The controversy over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed is expanding, as more Muslims join the boycott and protests against Denmark and various European newspapers decide to publish the cartoons, mostly out of solidarity with Jyllands Posten and to make a strong political stand. One issue that puzzles many Danes is the timing of this outburst. The cartoons were published in September: Why have the protests erupted from Muslims worldwide only now? The person who knows the answer to this question is Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, a man that the Washington Post has recently profiled as “one of Denmark's most prominent imams.” Last November, Abu Laban, a 60-year-old Palestinian who had served as translator and assistant to top Gamaa Islamiya leader Talaal Fouad Qassimy during the mid-1990s and has been connected by Danish intelligence to other Islamists operating in the country, put together a delegation that traveled to the Middle East to discuss the issue of the cartoons with senior officials and prominent Islamic scholars. The delegation met with Arab League Secretary Amr Moussa, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohammad Sayyed Tantawi, and Sunni Islam’s most influential scholar, Yusuf al Qaradawi. "We want to internationalize this issue so that the Danish government will realize that the cartoons were insulting, not only to Muslims in Denmark, but also to Muslims worldwide," said Abu Laban. On its face, it would appear as if nothing were wrong. However, the Danish Muslim delegation showed much more than the 12 cartoons published by Jyllands Posten. In the booklet it presented during its tour of the Middle East, the delegation included other cartoons of Mohammed that were highly offensive, including one where the Prophet has a pig face. But these additional pictures were NOT published by the newspaper, but were completely fabricated by the delegation and inserted in the booklet (which has been obtained and made available to me by Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet). The delegation has claimed that the differentiation was made to their interlocutors, even though the claim has not been independently verified. In any case, the action was a deliberate malicious and irresponsible deed carried out by a notorious Islamist who in another situation had said that “mockery against Mohamed deserves death penalty.” And in a quintessential exercise in taqiya, Abu Laban has praised the boycott of Danish goods on al Jazeera, while condemning it on Danish TV. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #4 Breaking story... An "outing" on this story would be worthy. Need the proof. Anyone up to it? |
| Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827 2006-02-03 23:51 |
| #3 just like the Koran flushing. It isn't getting media play because the media is on their side. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-02-03 14:18 |
| #2 Just EMailed URL this link to Hugh Hewitt. He has been spending lots of time on this in the last two days... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2006-02-03 13:14 |
| #1 See? THIS is the real story. The muslims aren't outraged about the tame cartoons that were actually published, they're outraged about these fakes. Strangely, this story isn't getting any airtime (I wonder why). |
| Posted by: gromky 2006-02-03 11:45 |